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NGUI 3 Support / Re: Show UILabel/Sprite above Player?

« on: April 21, 2014, 09:30:13 AM »

Mhm, I figured something out. I have a script which is responsible for a smooth (Main)Camera-Follow.
I noticed, when I remove that script, it works how it should!

This is what's happening in the script:

1. void Update ()
2.         {
3.                 Vector3 _tmp = thisTransform.position;
4.  
5.  
6.  
7.                 if(target.position.y < level_minY)
8.                 {
9.                         _tmp.y = Mathf.SmoothDamp(thisTransform.position.y, level_minY,
10.                                                   ref velocity.y, smoothTime);
11.                         thisTransform.position = _tmp;
12.                 }
13.                 else if(target.position.y > level_minY && target.position.y < level_maxY)
14.                 {
15.                         _tmp.y = Mathf.SmoothDamp(thisTransform.position.y, target.position.y,
16.                                                   ref velocity.y, smoothTime);
17.                         thisTransform.position = _tmp;
18.                 }
19.                 else if(target.position.y > level_maxY)
20.                 {
21.                         _tmp.y = Mathf.SmoothDamp(thisTransform.position.y, target.position.y,
22.                                                   ref velocity.y, smoothTime);
23.                         thisTransform.position = _tmp;
24.                 }
25.  
26.                 if(target.position.x <= level_minX)
27.                 {
28.                         _tmp.x = Mathf.SmoothDamp( thisTransform.position.x,
29.                                                   level_minX, ref velocity.x, smoothTime);     
30.                         thisTransform.position = _tmp;
31.                 }
32.                
33.                 // ABSOLUTER PUNKT RECHTS
34.                 else if(target.position.x >= level_maxX)
35.                 {
36.                         _tmp.x = Mathf.SmoothDamp( thisTransform.position.x,
37.                                                   level_maxX, ref velocity.x, smoothTime);
38.                         thisTransform.position = _tmp;
39.                 }
40.                
41.                 // ANSONSTEN FOLGEN
42.                 else
43.                 {
44.                         _tmp.x = Mathf.SmoothDamp( thisTransform.position.x,
45.                                                   target.position.x, ref velocity.x, smoothTime);
46.                         thisTransform.position = _tmp;
47.                 }
48.         }

What sould I change in order to get it to work with the Camera-Follow?

17

NGUI 3 Support / Re: Show UILabel/Sprite above Player?

« on: April 20, 2014, 04:37:18 PM »

Both are visible at the same time!

18

NGUI 3 Support / Re: Show UILabel/Sprite above Player?

« on: April 20, 2014, 01:12:51 AM »

The Player is on "Default" and the MainCamera renders Default and some other Layers but not the GUILayer.
My UI-Camera renders only the "GUILayer".

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NGUI 3 Support / Re: Show UILabel/Sprite above Player?

« on: April 19, 2014, 08:32:17 AM »

Alright. I had a look and it is indeed what I was searching for. The problem is now: I can't get the desired results. Have a look:

So this is my Label in the center of the UI (The label is a child of a Panel)


As you see the Target is the Player-Transform.

But as soon as I hit play, the Label moves to the lower right of the UI.


Of course in the Game-View the Label is displayed in the lower right. I want it to "hover" above the Player.

Wrong settings?

20

NGUI 3 Support / Show UILabel/Sprite above Player?

« on: April 17, 2014, 05:02:33 PM »

We're working on a 2D game, and sometimes our Character talks with others while the Main-Camera is centered.
We want them to have Speech-Bubbles with Text above their heads.
We thought it would be nice to achieve that with NGUI.

Is there a quick way to display an UILabel/Sprite from UIRoot and it's camera over the position of the 2D-Player-Sprite and his MainCamera?

21

NGUI 3 Support / Re: Comparision of NGUI over new uGUI

« on: April 02, 2014, 02:38:52 AM »

Well, I guess but the people who have Beta-Access can't talk very much about uGUI.
If you don't have Unity Pro, then the option to Atlas your UI-Sprites with NGUI is great, since Atlassing is a Pro-Feature only.

22

NGUI 3 Support / Re: How long was a button pressed?

« on: March 11, 2014, 05:03:54 PM »

Damn. Of course!

23

NGUI 3 Support / How long was a button pressed?

« on: March 11, 2014, 11:20:48 AM »

Hey there!

Is there a nice way to measure the time while pressing a button?
Meaning: When I press and hold a button a "timer" should go off and if it the button is pressed long enough something happens.

I searched the forums already and only got some older postings where recording the time in OnPress and checking it in Update was suggested. A legit and good idea, but here's the thing:

When the button is pressed long enough there should "popup" another GUI-Window (Widget, Sprite etc.) with a label asking the Player something specific.
I wanted to achieve this with Coroutines and NGUI-Tween-Events. Coroutines don't work properly in Update() and I don't want to add Events every frame in Update() while the "timer" fulfills the condition.

1. void OnPress(bool pressed)
2. {
3. if(pressed)
4. {
5. // I know this won't work, but I add it anyways, so you get my idea:
6.  
7. timer += Time.deltatime;
8.  
9. if(timer >= x)
10. {
11. // Start Coroutines
12. // Do cool Eventstuff
13. }
14. }
15. }

Any suggestions?

24

NGUI 3 Support / Re: Atlas Maker issues

« on: March 07, 2014, 01:07:02 PM »

Haha, got the same problem today: http://www.tasharen.com/forum/index.php?topic=8480.0

My solution was: changing the project from 2D to 3D. If you remember, on Project-Creation you can choose if you want Unity to setup the Project in 2D or 3D Mode. I used the 2D one in that project for the very first time and it gave me these problems.

Maybe it will help you, too.

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NGUI 3 Support / Re: Problems with Atlas-Creation

« on: March 07, 2014, 11:09:07 AM »

Ah, found it! Yeah, that did the job. God...this is so...dumb :/

Anyway, thanks so much for the help! This bothered me the whole day, uff...

26

NGUI 3 Support / Re: Problems with Atlas-Creation

« on: March 07, 2014, 11:05:45 AM »

Uh, I don't know why I don't get this error :/

And I don't know why the Texture is set to 16 bit. This happens automatically when the Atlas-Texture is created, it also sets it to "Sprite" automatically. How do I turn the 2D Mode off?

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NGUI 3 Support / Re: Problems with Atlas-Creation

« on: March 07, 2014, 10:43:20 AM »

Yes, I'm targeting iOS for now. I looked up the Quality-Settings and besides setting iOS from "Simple" to "Fantastic" and using "Full Res" I couldn't find anything else which limits the Texture Size.

Tried it again: same behaviour as before. When I select everything I need the Atlas-Maker limits the Atlas to 1024x512.
(4096x4096 is selected btw.)

I also tried to set all the imported Sprites to a bigger size like 2048 or 4096 (override for iPhone is selected!) and then to create the atlas. Doesn't help at all.

I tried that with setting the imported Sprites as "Sprites" and also as "Advances Textures". Always the same stuff :/

28

NGUI 3 Support / Re: Problems with Atlas-Creation

« on: March 07, 2014, 10:08:03 AM »

Unity doesn't freeze, but I can't use the Atlas-Maker. While the Progress-Bar is active and I click for example "View Sprites" in the Atlas-Maker I can't close the View-Sprites-Window anymore.

But I have one question: is this behaviour intended?

Just for testing I created an Atlas with 4 big sprites with these dimensions: 865x627
And for some reason it's creating an atlas with 1024x512.
Shouldn't the created Atlas be...bigger?



As you see, some sprites are squeezed into one "field".

So I looked up the Atlas-Texture:



And changed the "Max Size" Value to 2048. As soon as I did, the Atlas was "updated" immediately and the big sprites looked like they should:



When I add new Sprites to the Atlas and use Add/Update I get another MissingReferenceException, being again stuck in the Updating-Progress-Bar, but there I can click again on Add/Update and by doing so the other sprites are added accordingly and everything looks fine.

Though this "looks" fine this is way to unstable for me and a really bad way of handling the creation of an atlas and updating it!

What bothers me the most right now: is this of the latest Unity Version or NGUI Version? Before updating from NGUI 3.5 to 3.5.3 this didn't happen at all.

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NGUI 3 Support / Re: Problems with Atlas-Creation

« on: March 07, 2014, 09:45:31 AM »

Yes! I'm trying that right now!

If I'm on big sprite and some small ones it's ok, but at a certain amount of sprites it's starting to look weird :/
And sometimes I'm just stuck in the "Updating"-Progress-Bar and nothing happens and I have to ForceQuit Unity.
This is NOT ok!

30

NGUI 3 Support / Re: Problems with Atlas-Creation

« on: March 07, 2014, 09:20:29 AM »

Yeah, I also tried that for hours now and it doesn't help at all.
When I the Atlas is created, with the weird looking results, I tried it to Add/Update. Then, AFTER creation it gives me the MissingReferenceException again when I add/update it.

I'm sitting here now for some hours with empty projects and different sprite-graphics, some which are used in production and some I just made for testing purposes -> nothing works.

I'm using the latest Unity version btw. Are there any specific new settings I have to take in mind? The .PSD Files I'm importing are automatically set to "Sprite" as Texture Type with Pixelts to Unit = 100. I guess these values are alright that way?